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- BonSeff0
BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster
- utopian0
GFY BP
- PonyBoy0
the 'buying' of search words?????
wow...
what utopian said
- i drove past our bp on saturday and there was one car getting gas. 3 months ago it would have been filled.kona
- our bp = the bp gas station by our home.kona
- admit. you own one.tank
- i do. poppa needs a new pair of shoes. BUY MY GAS DAMMIT!kona
- I avoid BP like the plagueRamanisky2
- dopepope0
- why is this not being used right awayRamanisky2
- yeah I don't get it... It's seems like a straight forward solution.BannedKappa
- Good question, why is this not being used.********
- TheMagicSheep0
- hahahaAkiraprise
- brilliant!PonyBoy
- i was wearing this shirt when i found this image...http://www.w...TheMagicSheep
- http://tinyurl.com/2…TheMagicSheep
- iamtheboo0
These guys have got it right.
BP currently sponsor The Tate, a major British art institution. A group of activists calling themselves Liberate Tate have started taking direct action against said sponsorship.
Check this: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2…
- ********0
BP knew this would happen for years, and did nothing.
"A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways."
- BS. No one would fucking put themselves in this position purposely. Are you dumb?********
- read the report then, decide for your self.********
- BS. No one would fucking put themselves in this position purposely. Are you dumb?
- flashbender0
*gasp!
They KNEW that that something like this could happen and did nothing?!?!?!
They put profit before everything else?
I am shocked, appalled, and outraged!
- here here. i expected more from this multinational profit-centred corporation! their logo is SO nice and friendly.iamtheboo
- glad I'm not the only oneflashbender
- ********0
^it is not that it is shocking or anything,
but it is solid evidence that BP is CRIMINALLY negligent and completely at fault for the spill. Ive read that the Justice department is already looking into this. (http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.c...This means that there is a chance BP executives could do serious jail time.
- ********0
- georgesIII0
Nuke the damm thing and it will be over in a second,
the plans are a little bit too late,
nuke the damm thing
- flashbender0
'This means that there is a chance BP executives could do serious jail time. '
Do you honestly think that is going to happen? I'm sure they'll be fined, but I am doubtful that the US is going to bring the executives of a non-US company to court over this.
- let them dream bender,
let... them... dreamgeorgesIII - http://www.huffingto…********
- yes********
- let them dream bender,
- georgesIII0
sorry if it's a repost
- jaylarson0
BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-…
- utopian0
Things look much better today...
- bliznutty0
hmmmmm....
- Irregular sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand
- Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion
- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment
- ghandolf0
Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real
ASSOCIATED PRESS | MELISSA NELSON | Sat, Jun 5, 11:40 PM
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.
Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.
Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions of gallon of oil.
"These waters are my backyard, my life," said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove. "I don't want to say heartbreaking, because that's been said. It's a nightmare. It looks like it's going to be wave after wave of it and nobody can stop it."
The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days, even as a cap placed by BP over the blownout well began to collect some of the escaping crude. The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000 gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.
If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day. But that is a small fraction of the roughly 22 million to 48 million gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.
Allen, who said the goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured, compared the process to stopping the flow of water from a garden hose with a finger: "You don't want to put your finger down too quickly, or let it off too quickly."
BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.
President Barack Obama pledged Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: "We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast."
But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- now confronting the oil spill firsthand.
In Gulf Shores, Ala., boardwalks leading to hotels were tattooed with oil from beachgoers' feet. A slick hundreds of yards long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with a thick, red stew. Cleanup workers rushed to contain it in bags, but more washed in before they could remove the first wave of debris.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Allen met for more than an hour Saturday in Mobile, Ala., agreeing to a new plan that would significantly increase protection on the state's coast with larger booms, beachfront barriers, skimmers and a new system to protect Perdido Bay near the Florida line.
Riley, who was angered by a Coast Guard decision to move boom from Alabama to Louisiana, said the barriers must be up within days for him to be satisfied. Allen said he needed to report to the president before confirming more details of the agreement.
The oil is showing up right at the beginning of the lucrative tourist season, and beachgoers taking to the region's beaches haven't been able to escape it.
"This makes me sick," said Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude. "We were over in Florida earlier and it was bad there, but it was nothing like this."
At Pensacola Beach, Erin Tamber, who moved to the area from New Orleans after surviving Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, inspected a beach stained orange by the retreating tide.
"I feel like I've gone from owning a piece of paradise to owning a toxic waste dump," she said.
Back in Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against containment boom. The futility of their struggle was confirmed when Joe Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, sank thigh deep in oil on nearby East Grand Terre Island and had to be pulled from the tar.
"I would have died if I would have been out here alone," he said.
With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the slime dripping from its wings.
"We're in the sixth week, you'd think there would be a flotilla of people out here," Hahn said. "As you can see, we're so far behind the curve in this thing."
After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue center for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way. Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, 256 dead sea turtles, 31 dead dolphins, and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.
Yet scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting.
Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight. The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.
"People naturally tend to focus on things that are most conspicuous, like oiled birds, but in my opinion the impacts on fisheries will be much more severe," said Rich Ambrose, director of the environmental science and engineering at program at UCLA.
The Gulf is also home to dolphins and species including the endangered sperm whale. A government report found that dolphins with prolonged exposure to oil in the 1990s experienced skin injuries and burns, reduced neurological functions and lower hemoglobin levels in their blood. It concluded, though, that the effects probably wouldn't be lethal because many creatures would avoid the oil. Yet dolphins in the Gulf have been spotted swimming through plumes of crude.
Gilly Llewellyn, oceans program leader with the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, said she observed the same behavior by dolphins following a 73-day spill last year in the Timor Sea.
"A heartbreaking sight," Llewellyn said. "And what we managed to see on the surface was undoubtedly just a fraction of what was happening."
The prospect left fishing guide Marino shaking his head, as he watched the oil washing into a marsh and over the body of a dead pelican. Species like shrimp and crab flourish here, finding protection in the grasses. Fish, birds and other creatures feed here.
"It's going to break that cycle of life," Marino said. "It's like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that's going to do?"
- Authorities say 792 dead birds, 256 dead sea turtles, 31 dead dolphins, have been collected.ghandolf
- benfal990
I think we should all invade England and destroy everything on the land.
- the simpsons did itCALLES
- yeah! stupid english companies.flashbender
- Ramanisky20
from an MSNBC article
LOL at Snakes on a Plane momentWho would have ever expected some white Americans to demand that an African-American man show more rage?
If you've followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you've heard the complaints that Obama isn't showing enough emotion.
But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men.
It's the lesson Obama absorbed from his upbringing, and from an impromptu remark he delivered last summer. Yet it's a lesson he may now have to jettison, they say, as public outrage spreads.
"Folks are waiting for a Samuel Jackson 'Snakes on the Plane' moment from this president as in: 'We gotta' get this $#@!!* oil back in the $#!!* rig!' But that's just not who Obama is,'' says Saladin Ambar, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Some of the same people crying for Obama to show more emotion would have voted against him if he had displayed anger during his presidential run, says William Jelani Cobb, author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress."
